Daddy's Home!!

Dave made it home Sunday afternoon, after a 36 hour plane tour he arrived safely home to us! We were so happy to see him! Bo had lots of new words to tell him! Dave's trip was a good one. He really enjoyed the trip and the men that he was with. They mostly worked and worked some more so there wasn't a whole lot of site seeing while they were in Africa, besides the 2 1/2 day car ride with 6 men stacked in a Land Crusier. Thank you to all of you who prayed for him on this trip he saw a lot of God's creation and people who have a big heart for serving the Lord in these remote places of the world. Here are a few pics from his trip (or one's that I thought were pretty neat!)

Cousins!

This morning we spent a few hours with Bo's cousins, Kennedy and Tate. Bo was so sweet and lovey to Tate. Makes me more excited about the arrival of Gracie in less than 7 weeks. Tate is doing very well, he is a happy and content little guy so far!!

Tate Lucas Kimball, Welcome to the Family!

I had one of the best experiences in my life last Thursday! I got to experience the birth of my nephew Tate Kimball enter the world!! WOW, God is amazing!! Thank you Jodi and Adam for letting me be apart of such a special day for you guys! Tate was born March 12, @ 9:44 am he weighed 8 lbs 3oz and was 20 inches long! Here are a few pics for that very special day!
I will post more pics after tomorrow when I get some ones from home!!

Luv My Bubbles!

While Daddy is away!

It has been 13 days since Dave left on his trip. We hear from him through email about every other day. They have been working long and hard hours. Eating little, (oatmeal, bread, beef jerky and a few other little snacks). They are now out of North Africa (so now we can talk about where they were). They are currently in Nairobi and are in a much safer place for the remainder of the trip. We are looking forward to his return and his stories. He is due to arrive in Chicago, Sunday about noonish. He has seemed very upbeat in his emails and things have been going well for them. All of their traveling into the country was some what safe and not to dramatic so we praise God for that. Please continue to pray for him and the other guys until they are completely safe at HOME!!
As for Bo and I we are making it. It has been a little harder than I thought it would be. But I can't complain we have been trying to keep busy to keep our mind off of daddy being away. We have had a few things come up that would have been really nice if Dave would have been home. I have only told him a few of the most important things so he doesn't worry to much until he is home. Thank you to all our friends and family for helping entertain us while Dave is away. Our big thing is still to come on Thursday, the birth of our new nephew/cousin Tate!! We can't wait. I plan to be in the room for his birth and I am so excited to get to experience this miracle with my sister and Adam!!

Mission Trip

On Friday, Dave is heading out on a new adventure! He is going on a mission trip to Africa. I can't quit say where he is going, due to safety issues (posting on web), but I would ask that you keep him in your prayers. He is going to be away for 17 days!!! Please pray for strength, it will take 3 days to get there by plane (talk about a little jet lage). He is going to be doing some electrical work, painting and plumbing. Dave is going on the trip with 2 other guys who will work along side with Dave, one will be working on the computer equipment and internet access. He will end the trip with a few days in Tanzania, Africa at the Nassau Theological College doing some odd jobs around there. But most of the trip will be in another part of Africa. I am so excited for Dave and the opportunity for him to serve God in this way! I just told him I might be a little jealous since I have always wanted to go to Africa.

As for Bo and I we will man the fort here at home, although I do plan on staying the weekends with my parents in town! We are also looking forward to the delivery of my new nephew while Daddy is away. He will be here any day! We are also looking forward to the basket of goodies that my mother-in-law put together for Bo and I while Dave is away. This was just a sweet and thoughtful idea! We love you Grandma and Grandpa Stutzman so much!

Our baskets are full of little goodies for Bo and I to open one each day while Dave is gone!!

Big Boy Room!

We have made the full transition into Bo's new room! He loves climbing up onto his new bed and playing in his room. It took 3 nights to get him to sleep through the night in his new bed, which we considered pretty good! He is now sleeping in there during naps and during the night. Which means I have been able to clear out the boy stuff in the nursery and have started to make it alittle more girly. We aren't changing to many things just a few pink things here and there to fit for Gracie.

As far as for Bo's room we bought him new bunk beds, but have decided for now to only have the bottom bunk put together. We thought the whole transition might go a little smoother if we didn't have to worry about the top bunk above him. He has also become quit the climber lately and I didn't want to find him up on the top quit yet! Plus we can crawl in and out a little better without it on there :) I am waiting for a few more little details to put together in there but other than that our little guy is no longer in a crib!

Cereal Time!

I have been hesitant to start letting Bo eat cereal out of a bowl w/ milk for a while (just didn't want to deal with the mess). But I finally gave in and let him do it all by himself last week. He did a great job the first day, but we tried again today and it was a big puddle to splash in! I guess he did have fun eating breakfast though:)

18 months old, WOW!

Where has time gone. Today we went for Bo's 18 month check up. It went really well! NO SHOTS!!!!! He weighed in at 25 lbs 3 oz (50%) and was 32 1/2 inches long (tall)(75%). Dr. Boe said he is a very healthy little guy. We have been so blessed by Bo and can't imagine it any other way.

Bo's Top 10 at 18 months:

10. Banana's and pancakes for breakfast

9. Learning new words: ruck (truck), Car, Yes, uice (juice), De-De (Kennedy), Baby, Hi, Bye,

men-men (Amen)

8. Learning his animal sounds

7. Vacuming with his play vacum, while I have the real one!

6. Ice Cream!!!

5. Dancing to any music that comes on

4. Helping Daddy on projects around the house

3. Riding in tractors

2. Playing and watching tractor video's

1. Saying Tractor, NON-STOP!!

Work Projects

Over the past week or so we have been working on the long list of projects around the house. We are redoing (updating) our 3rd bedroom which Bo will move into shortly. We had to ripe down wallpaper, put a light in (ceilingfan w/ light), light switch and are putting more closet shelving in, painting trim and walls and then we had a few other small projects around the house. Bo has been a big help. He loves to be right there by Daddy the entire time. He got his own power tool set for x-mas and so he gets to use those. It's so cute to see him imitate Dave! Hopefully the bedroom will be all ready in the next two weeks so that we can move Bo into his new bunkbed before Daddy takes off to Africa for a couple weeks. We are trying to get all these things done before Dave heads off to Africa for 18 days. That way I can work on cleaning and getting the nursery ready for our little girl, wh!ile he is away! I'll post some pics of the finished project once we are done!!